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Mashable Connect is Mashable's signature conference that brings together Mashable’s passionate community for three days in a unique and intimate setting to share, inspire and really connect with each other offline. It attracts a top tier audience of executives and senior professionals in digital, tech and social media. Whether you’re a brand leader, agency, strategist, entrepreneur, creative or senior level marketer, Mashable Connect is a valuable opportunity to learn from and network with other digital leaders from across industries.

The second year for Mashable's largest conference will take place May 3-5, 2012 at Disney's Contemporary Resort of Walt Disney World. Mashable Connect 2012 will feature premier speakers who will provide insight into the technologies and trends that are shaping the next era of digital innovation as well as exploring the Future of Digital.

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Joe Trippi, former campaign manager for Howard Dean and author of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything, thinks the ultra-popular "Texts From Hillary" Tumblr could help her win the 2016 preside...

The great debate between original and curated content has been a hot topic in the age of social media. Today, so much content is produced at such a rapid rate that the web has become a realm of tastemakers. Tools like Storify make it easy to archive ...

On Monday, Hulu revealed a slate of 10 original shows it plans to premiere on the site this summer. The news followed a slew of announcements from the likes of Yahoo, AOL and other big media companies that are now developing original video content fo...

Design makes all the difference. It determines a concept's usability, interactivity, clarity and scope, and can mean the difference between a business's success and demise. Firms like IDEO help organizations in the public and private sectors achieve ...

Lawrence Lessig called Internet privacy an "oxymoron" in a backstage interview during this year's Mashable Connect conference, held in Orlando, Florida. Lessig added that the solution lies in building what he called an "identity layer" into the Inter...

"Klouchebag" can be defined as (how do we put this delicately?) a person who is, frankly, a complete douchebag on social media. As you might infer, the word pertains specifically to Klout, a company that measures analytics to determine a user's influ...

Crowdsourcing has been used for everything from drafting a constitution to creating Super Bowl ads. But can it also be used to solve crimes? That's the hope of Morgan Wright, who spent 18 years working in law enforcement and will soon launch a new in...

Building on the success of last year's Mashable Connect, our biggest conference of the year returned in 2012 to explore the future of digital with some of the brightest minds in the industry and Mashable's passionate community. Set in a truly unique ...

Plenty has been penned on the time teenagers and young adults "waste" on the Internet. Facebook is often vilified on this account. And while Internet addiction, bullying and diminishing attention spans are certainly of concern, the empowerment these ...

Enthusiasm for so-called ï¿½second screenï¿½ apps has seemingly reached a tipping point. The presence of smartphones or tablets while watching TV is nearly ubiquitous, and networks, award shows and startups are among those trying to capitalize on vie...

"How do we observe the future?" So began the presentation of Duane Bray, partner and head of IDEO's global digital business, at our Mashable Connect conference in Orlando, Fla., last weekend. IDEO is a firm that solves problems through "human-centere...

The number of online news consumers has grown consistently over the past half-decade, yet not every publication has gotten the same lift as The Atlantic, whose web audience has catapulted from approximately 500,000 to 13.4 million monthly visitors si...

The evolution of social TV for consumers, content producers and advertisers continues to move at a breakneck pace. Several second-screen-experience insiders recently gathered at Mashable Connect in Orlando to weigh in on those shifting dynamics in th...

Social media and technology are mere catalysts in a global revolution that's altering the very nature of power in our civilization. This movement is mixing the top-down "old power" with a sideways-flowing "new power," according to the 92Y's deputy ex...

Klout has had a busy few weeks, unleashing an iPhone app, brand pages and a new API. But more changes are on deck. Klout CEO Joe Fernandez hinted at those developments on stage and backstage at Mashable Connect in Orlando. The San Francisco-based sta...

Roger McNamee, the managing director and co-founder of venture capital firm Elevation Partners, has a theory about how Apple became the biggest U.S. technology growth story of all time: "The thing that made Apple successful was betting against the we...

Although 3D printing has been around since the '80s, it only recently moved out of specialty prototyping shops. As the technology becomes more accessible -- allowing anybody to design anything they want -- it could revolutionize the way products are ...

The marketing world needs to stop being so afraid and start solving problems, according to Cindy Gallop, an entrepreneur and consultant whose prescription for growth calls for synthesizing creativity and data collection. Gallop, who spoke at Mashable...

When I leave the house in the morning, the first thing I check is that I have my phone with me. It's not my keys nor my wallet, but my phone that I'm most worried about forgetting. My mobile device has become my lifeline in a lot of ways -- and I kno...

Just like you learned to crawl before you walked, you learned to listen to your mother's heartbeat from within her womb before you saw anything outside of it. On stage at Mashable Connect in Orlando, Soundcloud CEO Alexander Ljung described the early...

American Express went from virtually zero social media presence in 2009 to being hailed by Advertising Age as the "real winner" at South By Southwest this year. How did AmEx do it? Leslie Berland, SVP of digital partnerships and development at the co...

We've seen an explosion in the number and effectiveness of online political movements over the past year: Occupy Wall Street, the efforts against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Arab Spring each had some digital component. Lawrence Lessig, ...

Apple is such an influential brand today that just calling it "iconic" doesn't really do it justice. The company's reach goes far beyond tech, with its methods, philosophies and products studied and imitated worldwide in the hope that acting like App...

Public relations is rapidly changing to keep up with the rapid pace of social media. PR is no longer a siloed function or an afterthought; smart organizations are using new PR tactics to grow their businesses, better connect with users and increase t...

Among Facebook's motives for buying Instagram, the photo-sharing app's success on mobile was clearly a big draw. In the short year-and-a-half since its launch, Instagram has grown to 30 million users -- and did it all without a website. The app only ...

In just three weeks, Duane Bray, partner and head of IDEO's global digital business, will take the stage at Mashable's Connect conference in Orlando, FL to investigate how our present-day digital behaviors will affect us down the road, both as indivi...

This week is your last chance to get a pass to Mashable's biggest conference of the year, Mashable Connect. This three-day conference is a must-attend event for leaders of the Connected Generation. There, industry experts will discuss the ideas and t...

Mashable Connect is only a few weeks away! Now's a better time than ever to get your pass to our biggest conference of the year. There are many reasons to attend Mashable's largest conference of the year, and now we have one more: breakout sessions. ...

With only a few weeks away until Mashable Connect, now's a better time than ever to get your pass to Mashable's biggest conference of the year. This three-day conference is a must-attend event for leaders of the Connected Generation. There, industry ...

Is the fight over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) over? Not even close, according to Internet law expert Lawrence Lessig. Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center f...

We're pleased to announce that Peter Weijmarshausen, CEO of Shapeways, will join Mashable Connect as a premier speaker. Imagine a future where instead of having to search for the perfect piece of furniture or jewelry, you could easily design your ver...

Our biggest conference of the year, Mashable Connect, is returning to Orlando, FL from May 3-5, and this year we will explore the future of digital with some of the brightest minds in the industry. This is your chance to spend three days away from ev...

We're excited to announce two new and inspiring speakers joining Mashable Connect, our largest conference of the year, which returns to Orlando, FL from May 3-5. Leslie Berland, SVP of digital partnerships and development at American Express, and Sco...

Joe Trippi, author of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet and the Overthrow of Everything, served as Howard Dean's campaign manager in 2004 and as a senior advisor for John Edward's 2008 bid. According to him, the Democrats ...

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